Thursday, November 22, 2007

Turkey Day

Dear Henry Albert,

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season.
Thanksgiving is also supposed to commemorate the time when the Pilgrims (The white men who invaded America) and the Native Americans (Who used to be called Indians or Red Men.) feasted together to celebrate the joys of their encounters (When they weren’t killing, raping, enslaving, scalping and being not nice to each other).

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving by killing and eating turkeys.

Turkeys are descended from the noble Dinosaurs. Turkeys became popular after the movie “Sergeant York”, staring Gary Cooper. During WW I, he made gobble sounds in the trenches. The Huns would pop up to see what's happening and he would shoot them in the eye.
Turkey is also a member of NATO.

Most of the people in Turkey (Turks) are Muslims but the men do not wear dresses and the people don’t hate Americans too much despite the efforts of George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, the CIA, the Kurds, the EU and Muktar Avogadro. Muktar’s uncle, Armando, visited Constantinople (which is now Istanbul) when he was a student and is very good with numbers.

Wild Turkey is also a very popular brand of bourbon. The Chinese, Japanese and Indians (not Native Americans, but the ones who are assaulted by monkeys) also like Jack Daniels.

Stuffing is a very important part of the Thanksgiving turkey dinner, along with sweet potato pie (with marshmallows and sometimes maraschino cherries). Vegetarians make faux turkey with tofu. Most turkeys are kosher, which may have meaning regarding the beliefs of the Native Americans. (Are buffalo kosher?)

The Park Police are put on special alert in Flushing Meadow Park during November because of duck assaults and other inscrutable activities of the nearby Chinese restaurants during Thanksgiving time. Bukharian restaurants don’t do that.

Turkeys that don’t get eaten, live about ten years and have wattles. Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the Turkey America’s national bird and if you click on this link, (
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/turkeypuzzle.htm) you will get a Turkey puzzle. Nobody is quite sure what a wattle does and turkeys don’t like Thanksgiving.

Each year Americans kill between 300 to 500 million Turkeys.

Thanksgiving is a holiday when Americans should give thanks that they are not turkeys

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